Paul University is the brain-child of the Bishops of the five Ecclesiastical Provinces (currently comprising 55 Dioceses) of the Anglican Communion, east of the Niger, whose vision to establish a novel University became a reality on November 3, 2009, when the National University Commission (NUC) granted the University the license to operate.

Currently, the University operates from its take-off site at the premises of former St. Paul’s College, Awka, founded by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), an evangelical arm of the Church of England (Anglican), in 1904 as a college for the training of Church workers and teachers of various categories. The campus is thus a hallowed ground, providing an ideal academic environment where students and staff, under Christian discipline and administrative guidance, are maximally focused in their academic pursuits with no distraction. The permanent site of the University is at Oji River, on the Awka-Enugu expressway, and plans are under way for its development.